Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-05-21
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KANSAS NEWS.

Dee-keSpeE8' association has been organ
ized In Washington county.
The. superintendent Of the Topeka city
schools receives s., 500 salary.
The Ft. Scott waterworks have been sold
to Conugys q Lewis Of New York.
The value Of live stock shipped from Pea
body during April was over 100000.
Over twenty daily papers have been started
IN Kansas within the last three months.
The Harper green houses seem TO be sup
plying all the surrounding towns with
flowers.
Edna, sixteen miles east Of OoaeyVille, is
eight months old and has several hundred
inhabitants.
clay Center claims over 1000 inhabitants.
1t is prosperous and growing, as we'll as
beautiful town.
There will be state convention Of county
superintendents held at EmpOria on the 10Th
and 18th insists.
Il costs Wyandotte county IS 7-10 cents,
and LeavenWorth county 2511 cents per day
70 maintain their pauPera-
General complaints continue to come up
from all parts of the state, concerning IL
reguiaFities and failures Of the mails.
The annual Sunday SCHOOL assembly will
begin at Ottawa, June 10 this year. Rev.
Sam Jones will bs the great attraction.
MllDrGOk mes q new pEIler ChtieN the
American Desert. We suppose II would
howl If any one inimated that it was dry.
Hutchinson Is expecting TO have one OF the
largest iron manufacturing establishments
in the west. She is also to have glass fac
tory.
Greensburg has aneRro poet, Alhery A.
Whitman who Is said TO write very credit
able verse. He has pubiisl ed one long
poem.
The Arkansas City Democrat says that
the Santa F . is going to erect twenty-one
niles Of switches, round houses and mach
inc shops at that point.
The statement is gc'-g the rourd that
papers OF Wichita and Ft. Scott receive reg
ulariy large pay from their respective Gitis-
for writing boom articles.
Washington Post M. T. King. on Joy
creek, is reported to have discovered three
foot vein of coal yesterday while digging
twenty five feet.
The Allen county Democrat claims that OF
the 30, 900, 900 pounds OF broom corn rFissd
in Kansas last year, nearly 100000 was
grown in the little county Of Aller, and over
three-fourths Of this was sold in lola.
The discovery Of a small colony of rata at
wellington created quite an interest. Rats
are entirely unknown on the prairies Of the
west. Those Fbave referred to we're probably
| accidentally brought ont IN some freigt, a
nest in old machinery for instance.
The Nasons of FL Dorado are preparing
/ for an immense cOncOurse OF strangers Who
| are to visit FL Dorado June % and "a. The
| occasion wilI De the laying OF the corner
! stone OF their Grand Masonic Temple block,
the total cost thereof being $4,000.
/ An Allen county school district, on arbor
/ day, fenced the five acres composing the
/ school grounds, plouRhed It up and hlled II
/ full of trees, rose bushes and al sorts OF
/ shrubs. The day WAS made a holiday. The
| whole DeiRhborhOod gathered to the number
| Of $50 or 800.
The Atchison ChamPian announces that
] If any parties know of the location OF any
whisky joint in the city, and will inform the
| marshal that the same Will be closed up
| immediately,
/ Harper has had An ineendisry fire which
Il destroyed a whole block Of frame buildings
| and involved loss of $4,000. Eome Of the
/ burned buildings will be replaced with
| brick structures.
! A half million Of people, 1000 miles OF
| railroad, thousands Of new farms, hundreds
Of new towns, and $2O,OO0,oGO Of taxable
/ property, will be the summing mp of the
| present growth Of Kansas.
| Kansas has !. 1863 postoiioes, over ], 500. 600
/ inhabitants, 6,O60 miles Of oOmDleted rail-
| gay, 13, 475, 495 sores OF land under cultivE-
ton, and less ignorance to the population
| than any other State in the Union.
Newton Republican: Ed. Wholheater, on
/ his new $50 bicycle, anb blind mare had
! a race one Seventh street yesterday, which
| resulted in Eddie coming in contact with
| said mare and striking the ground head
/ first the hoOt Of the animRl going through
s 81 bicycle and damaging tito the extent OF
The CofeevilIe Journal: Tells Of the sad
case Of the drowning OF Charley StrOugh
who fell in the water near Ferguson
\ Lemons Mill. When fOun d the face and head
Of the young man had evidently been In
| contact with the machinery of the wheel,
/ and the skull WIS crushed and the face cut
and bruised to An extent that dishgured the
/ unfortunate victim.
Harper Sentinel An interesting sensa-
ton is Just now occupying the attention OF
the people Of Meade Center. A man has
/ been found dead about miles west Of that
town with hole in his head. the body tied
up in a sack. It would seem that coroner's
| inquest was held and the case disposed end
/ the body buried, but now the people are
dissatisfied With the proceedings and it VIII
probably be ezhumed for further sLaming-
ton.
Valley Falls Nsl0 Era John CushinbsFFy,
a well known and prohigate negro, aged
about 20, criminally assaulted Miss Lena
baldwin, daughter Of D. II. Baldwin, white,
while she and her little sisters we're visiting
the old ceInstery IN the west part of shs city.
The scr saras Of the girl frightened on the
ustful oritter, Who It is said, had An open
knife 10 his hand and threatened dire ven
/ geance II she made any resistance.
Ness County NetUs We CLEAN from the
abstract furnished our county clerk that
during the peried from March lgt, 1885, TO
| March LIST, 1887, there were 67.760 acres OF
/ land upon which fnal proof had been made
under the homestead, presumption and tim
/ Der culture laws. Proof had been submit
| ted upon a great number Of tracts immedi-
/ ately prior 70 last March, but the business
/ Of the once at Wa-Keensy prevented anal
receipts being issued thereon and are not
| included IN the above.
Haddsm CIippers Frank Taylor came
/ in this morning from the north With &
specimen OF wild man. He was assisted IN
/ the capture by Jas league. Subject 30 one
i Wholen, Bohemian, Who for the mast year
I fine little farm up north Of town, ana viii
neither plant or sllOW any ore else n DO 80
/ and would take a gun and make the nteni-
bsr8 OF his family stand shout 3u g1hud
shape. His hair IL long and unkGngs,
! sallOW complexion and long bOny nhgeEs
/ give him a wild and dangerous appearance
Lincoln Democrat: Mr.. Mic Broska, q
I we'll to do farmer, IS years old. died by 40
/ cidental poisoning with caTbolio acid. he
/ had bSsn confined 70 his bed IN q dangerous
/ condition. from gaugTeue, Tor about three
! weeks His 81 FSer-iu-la law, intending to give
\ him bis iron tonic, accidentally gave the
/ acid, (which hac been diluted "a q local ap-
piioation) which speedily resulted IA death
/ Miss Chard is a most estimable young lazy
! and Is nearly insane with grief, at the terri
/ bic mistake, she having been 3 faithful at
! tsndaDt through Mr.. BrOaka's long illnesa-
/ Greeley Tribune During the presentation
/ OF 90 Uncle Toms Cabin 20 8 crowded
] house In this place. a pack OF Siberian
] blood hounds we're turned loose on the stage
and during the seufhe With tbs hounds cry
Of alarm from one Of the actors called the
/ attention Of the audience TO the startling
\ fast that one Of the most feHociou1 OF the